Poor diet continues to take a toll on American adults. It's a major risk factor for obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and certain cancers, and more than one million Americans die every year from diet-related ...
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Early in the pandemic, many people who had SARS-CoV-2 infection or COVID-19 began to report that they couldn't shake off their symptoms even after a month or more—unusually long for a viral infection of the upper respiratory ...
Jun 17, 2024
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The number of individuals in the U.S. who had chronic hypertension or chronic high blood pressure during pregnancy doubled between 2008 and 2021, while the prescribing and filling of antihypertensive medication during pregnancy ...
Jun 17, 2024
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When implemented in Nebraska, the WISEWOMAN program supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which offers services for women ages 40–64 who are low-income and uninsured/underinsured, improved hypertension, ...
Jun 15, 2024
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A combination of GLP-1 agonists taken before metabolic and bariatric surgery may help patients with extreme obesity lower the risk of post-operative complications, according to a new study presented today at the American ...
Jun 13, 2024
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In June 2016, the German national football team was gearing up to face Slovakia in the European championship. With pulses set to race among thousands of fans in the crunch match in host country France, a group of scientists ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, a type of weight-loss surgery, kept type 2 diabetes in remission for up to 15 years and most of the weight off for up to 20 years in one of the largest long-term studies of patients undergoing the ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for approximately one in every three deaths, with more than 20 million deaths reported in 2021 according to a 2024 World Heart Federation report.
Jun 12, 2024
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The WHO on Wednesday blamed four major industries—tobacco, ultra-processed foods (UPFs), fossil fuel and alcohol—for 2.7 million deaths a year in Europe, accusing them of obstructing public policies that could hurt their ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Patients with pre-diabetes and severe obesity who had metabolic and bariatric surgery were 20 times less likely to develop full-blown type 2 diabetes over the course of 15 years than patients with the condition who did not ...
Jun 11, 2024
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